A multidisciplinary team including mathematicians, ecologists and biologists, and coordinated by our Researcher Member Jorge Orestes Cerdeira, has proposed a mathematical method to understand and better explore the ecological niche of a species.

Direct Multisearch (DMS), a solver suited for derivative-free multiobjective optimization, co-authored by Ana Luísa Custódio, one of the Operations Research Group members of CMA, is cited as a reference for a new function of the Global Optimization Toolbox of release 2018b of Matlab.